Is the Su-30SM even worth it?

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the Su-30SM is here!
Eventhough America gets the Hornet Russia will be the top dog this patch.
14 TOTAL air to air missiles, 12 of which R-77.
No ordinary R-77 but the new R-77-1.
So MOST ARH missiles on one aircraft and the BEST ARH missiles at that.
Prob still best to bring a pair of R-27ET's since you don't really need THAT many R-77's and this way you can still get some nice stealth kills.
You'd think that would be placed on a brick or something without A2G ordinance but no...
This thing gets just about everything you'd need, even the non-counterable GROM 2 that was removed in a recent patch after they briefly added it on the dev server.

It also gets a very unique feature.
Thrustvectoring!
Alongside the new AoA-delimiter button that many top tier jets will get, it will be able to do INSANE maneuvers.
High speed cobra's I reckon.
We'll see how Gaijin implements the wing rip for that.
Cobra maneuvers are a bit of a gimmick but thrustvectoring should help in sustained turn performance too.
The nozzles kinda help with the pitch up movements but with less elevator movement there is less induced drag on said elevators hence less bleeding.

No new rank 8 premium to quickly unlock it with but the MiG-23ML is a great rank 7 in my opinion so worth getting if you don't have it yet. Alternatively you can use the Su-39 for it but it's not really for the air-to-air playstyles so not my personal recommendation.

I'm personally quite far from it, I only have the base Su-27, and am focussing on other trees. But it is VERY tempting to try and get this thing ASAP before something better gets added somewhere else since this is going to be the top dog for a while.

Let me know, what do you guys think? Are you going for this? Is it worth grinding out the Russian tree for it?

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